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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by HideousKojima on Thursday March 10, 2022 @01:18PM (#30630374)
It's not a conspiracy (few things are because they just don't scale well). It's more what I call "assholes with similar motives/incentives." It has a lot of the appearance of coordination without needing secret meetings in smoke-filled rooms.

That said, sometimes it actually is coordination. Just look at the JournoList scandal.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by shadowgovt on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:22PM (#30631924)
Isn't the "JournoList scandal" just "There was a Google Group that lots of journalists on the left subscribed to?"

Journalists have always talked to each other. The fact that we have an auditable mailing list of one instance of it just tells us something we already know.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by HideousKojima on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:19PM (#30633309)
"If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them – Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists"

Yes, that sounds like journalists just "talking to each other."

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by shadowgovt on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:37PM (#30635483)
It definitely sounds like off-the-record talk.

Oh course, they forgot that everything on a mailing list is definitionally on-the-record.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by deltarholamda on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:48PM (#30632228)
>Isn't the "JournoList scandal" just "There was a Google Group that lots of journalists on the left subscribed to?"

No, they were coordinating messaging to get the results they wanted. That's the scandal, because they were simultaneously presenting themselves as Objective Journalists.

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